Content Club

The Espresso Content Club allows Regional Broadband Consortia (RBCs) and LAs which represent large numbers of schools using Espresso, to share commissioned content.

For example, modules on Faiths produced in association with the London Grid for Learning and People Who Help Us produced with CLEO are also available to other grids/LAs who commission their own modules from Espresso.

For more information on joining Content Club, please email us at schoolsupport@espresso.co.uk

Resources available to members of the Content Club includes:

New! Performing stories (English 2) - commissioned by CLEO

Performing stories

The resources in Performing stories centre around three traditional stories that originate from Cumbria and Lancashire: The Lancashire Giant; The Cobblestone Maker and King Dunmail. The resources are offered in a suggested 'workshop structure' to support you in setting up your own workshops with your class in order to help children develop storytelling skills.

Team Building: Outdoor and Adventure Pursuits - commissioned by Somerset LA

Team Building: Outdoor and Adventure PursuitsThe module sets out to show how trust, adventure games and team problem solving activities can be used to develop collaborative learning in school.

It offers examples of activities that can become the focus of teamwork challenges and how a process of trial, reflection and improvement can develop self-awareness and social skills.

Stories from other cultures (commissioned by Manchester LA)

Stories from other culturesThis module was developed to enable EAL learners to access the curriculum through interactive, multimedia texts.

It provides resources that can be used in the early stages of acquiring English, as well as by learners at a later stage.

It also features a Talking Dictionary, a survival kit enabling teachers & pupils to communicate when learning English.

Minibeasts (commissioned by Staffordshire LA)

MinibeastsMinibeasts is a fun and instructional module which features local children carrying out research and activities at a wild life centre and at school. This video offers an opportunity for pupils to look closely at body parts of a minibeast as well as observing how an animal moves. It also includes cross curricular links to citzenship and ICT.

 

People Who Help Us commissioned by Cumbria Lancashire Education Online

People Who Help UsThis engaging module introduces people at their work in the community such as a Doctor and a Farmer and introduces some unfamiliar jobs such as Banana Picker. People Who Help Us is specifically designed for Foundation level and incorporates new elements and icons that cater to a younger age group.

 

Local Study

Local Study Local Study offers opportunities for children to develop skills of geographical and historical enquiry. It features videos that enable and encourage pupils to learn how to use ICT, providing a template for pupils to investigate and produce reports on their own local area.

 

 

Faiths

Faiths A popular module that makes learning about different world religions accessible and attractive to all primary pupils. Information-rich resources covering six faiths: Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Christianity and Judaism.

 

 

Victorian Times

Victorian Times A module aimed at pupils studying Victorian Britain, which shows how local resources can be used to create lively and stimulating digital media resources that help to deliver the National Curriculum.

 

 

 


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